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May 28, 2022
2,100-year-old farmstead in Israel found ‘frozen in time’ after owners disappeared
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: military
The ancient farmsteaders may have “left in haste.”
Archaeologists in Israel have unearthed the 2,100-year-old remains of a farmstead whose owners likely abandoned it in a hurry, possibly to avoid an impending military invasion.
“We were very lucky to discover a time-capsule, frozen in time, in which the finds remained where they were left by the occupants of the site,” which is near Israel’s northern Sea of Galilee, archaeologist Amani Abu-Hamid, who is leading the excavation for the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA), said in a statement.
May 28, 2022
James Webb telescope will soon study two Super-Earths in the Milky Way
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: space
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NASA’s James Webb space telescope is almost ready to get to work. The telescope’s mirrors are perfectly aligned. The team is currently finishing up the final calibrations of the spacecraft’s various instruments. Once that is done, Webb will be ready to get to work. One of the first things NASA plans to do with it is study two “super-Earth” planets known as 55 Cancri e and LHS 384 b.
Of note, both planets are located in our own Milky Way galaxy.
May 28, 2022
‘Privacy’ Search Engine DuckDuckGo Smoked Over Hidden Tracking Agreement With Microsoft
Posted by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz in category: security
ZeroHedge — On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.
DuckDuckGo, the search engine which claims to offer ‘real privacy’ because it doesn’t track searches or store users’ history, has come under fire after a security researcher discovered that the mobile DuckDuckGo browser app contains a third-party tracker from Microsoft.
Researcher Zach Edwards found that while Google and Facebook’s trackers are blocked, trackers related to bing.com and linkedin.com were also being allowed through.
May 28, 2022
Attackers Can Use Electromagnetic Signals to Control Touchscreens Remotely
Posted by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz in category: futurism
GhostTouch attack allows attackers to use electromagnetic signals to control touchscreen devices.
May 28, 2022
Microsoft Finds Critical Bugs in Pre-Installed Apps on Millions of Android Devices
Posted by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz in category: robotics/AI
Details released for a new critical remote code execution vulnerability affecting the Chrome dev channel and related Chromium-based web browsers.
May 28, 2022
Experts Detail New RCE Vulnerability Affecting Google Chrome Dev Channel
Posted by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz in category: futurism
Details released for a new critical remote code execution vulnerability affecting the Chrome dev channel and related Chromium-based web browsers.
May 28, 2022
Nearly 100,000 NPM Users’ Credentials Stolen in GitHub OAuth Breach
Posted by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz in category: futurism
GitHub shares more details about the recent OAuth token breach, revealing that the attacker gained access to the credentials of nearly 100k NPM users.
May 28, 2022
Boeing’s Starliner lands in the desert — and brings NASA one step closer to a key strategic goal
Posted by Atanas Atanasov in category: space travel
Starliner’s path to success has been turbulent.
This flight has been a long time coming. It brings NASA one step closer to a goal it’s had for some years now: To rely on multiple private space companies to transport astronauts and supplies between the ground and the ISS. But Starliner’s path has been turbulent. For NASA, even if the ascent was a success, it was still well behind schedule.